Free Flight Night at the Kendal Mountain Festival will feature a host of films from the famous Coupe Icare Film Festival in France this year, as well as a unique presentation from paragliding and hang gliding star and filmmaker Antoine Boisselier. The festival, which takes place over four days in November in Kendal, UK is […] …read more
Cross Country 165: What’s in the latest issue
Welcome to the circus…The front cover of Cross Country 165 shows one of the magical aerial machines from this year’s Coupe Icare, and that gives us a great a chance to look forward to what the manufacturers are bringing to the market from next year. From the ‘Baby Enzo’ for performance XC pilots wanting the […] …read more
Falling: By Brett Hazlett
A year ago this October Canadian competition pilot Brett Hazlett had an accident while launching from Babadag in Turkey. A year on he re-lives what happened next, and takes us step by excruciating step through his painful recovery. The goal: to fly again I am lying on the steep slopes of a six-thousand-foot mountain in […] …read more
Welcome to Deniliquin: By Kari Ellis
Kari Ellis introduces the little town of Deniliquin, home to booming thermals, ripping climbs and long glides until sunset Deniliquin is a town in the New South Wales Riverina region of Australia and, amongst paraglider and hang-glider pilots, it is fast building a reputation as a mecca for flatland flying. Similar to other famous flatland […] …read more
Born to Fly: By Kristianna May
What’s it like being a young woman learning to fly in a male-dominated scene? I feel proud to represent the more feminine side of PPG, and I hope I can get the word out that women can and are getting out there like me, flying paramotors and loving every minute of it. France has a […] …read more
Review: UP Trango XC3, EN C
The Trango XC2 was one of the standout sports wings of 2013, but is this a worthy successor? Hugh Miller finds out Call me spoilt, but I wasn’t that keen to try the Trango XC3. I’d been enjoying the sublime pleasures of flying CCC wings in between reviewing the GTO2, M6, Triton 2 and Pure […] …read more
Review: BGD Base, EN B
Franz Altmann takes on Bruce Goldsmith’s high-level EN B Following the successful sports class Tala and the low-end EN B Wasp, there has been great anticipation of a high-end intermediate from the Bruce Goldsmith stable. By the beginning of this year the time had come – the Base was ready and available. We were fortunate […] …read more
Tracking the River Sao Francisco
Tracking the River Sao Francisco …read more
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2016 paragliding specials
Olympic Wings offers exclusive paragliding seminars, special events and workshops Come and Fly with us! 02.04. – 09.04.2016 APPI pro workshop with Manu Bonte 23.04. – 28.04.2016 SIV workshop with Alain Zoller 04.06. – 11.06.2016 XC seminar with Bruce Goldsmith …read more
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fantastic flying & holiday week with the pilots from Flugschule Göppingen, Flugschule Appenzell, Paragliding Club Ostrau and from Sweden
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